Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the … United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity … growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …

, capital accumulation and total factor productivity growth. The analysis finds causal evidence that trade integration fosters … intra-regional trade are channeled through enhanced total factor productivity growth …

-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …

productivity growth in Chile between 1992 and 2004. The authors estimate an extended production function where plant output growth … positive and significant effect of foreign direct investment in services on productivity growth of Chilean manufacturing plants … investment in services account for almost 5 percent of the observed increase in Chilean manufacturing productivity growth during …